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So Egbert Rimkus was 34 years old in the summer of 1996.

And by most accounts, he was the kind of person who approached life with a certain deliberate energy.

He worked as an architect in Dresden in the former East Germany, and architecture suits a particular kind of mind, someone comfortable thinking in systems, who can hold a large structure in their head and move through it logically, who trusts planning specifically.

But to understand Egbert, you have to understand Dresden in 1996, because the city he lived and worked in was still in the middle of a convulsion that had no real Western equivalent.